Originally Posted by
guitarjosh
Yeah, propaganda like showing the Grapes of Wrath in Russian theaters. The only thing was the people saw how well poor Americans lived so they had to pull the movie. Stalin was a communist, and he was running a communist country. He did his best to foster the ideas of Marx.
Hitler thought capitalism was a Jewish idea, which ought to let you know what he thought about it.
FDR didn't save capitalism at all, we didn't even have capitalism. The price of credit was set by central planners, the exact same way the price of everything was set by the Soviets.
Both Germany and Italy were constitutional monarchies prior to fascism, and the reason they went to fascism is because of WWI's aftermath and how they thought they had both been mistreated by the Treaty of Versailles.